Softball Super Regional Game 1 Thread - Lady Dawgs vs. Arizona

[maroonmania]

Somebody help me out?unless the rule for softball is different from baseball how can you get obstruction on a defender that is making a play of the ball? The batter bunts, the catcher bounces out in an effort to make a play on the ball and makes contact with the batter/runner. By definition, and based on what they put on the screen that is NOT obstruction. If anything the batter/runner should be out and the base runner remains at first. And the ump definitely called obstruction based on the signal he gave after the review.

So here is the quote from Coach Ricketts after the game: "?When they put that first replay on the board, it was pretty obvious that Mia had made contact with the runner. By rule, since Mia did not make a play it was obstruction,? Ricketts said. ?It?s unfortunate that there?s nothing in the rule book that she stood in the box for about three seconds but by the rule book that is correct. In all my years of coaching and playing I?ve never seen that happen.?

So it sounds like if Mia had been the one that had gotten to the ball and threw the runner out it would not have been interference but since she made contact with the runner and didn't make the play on the ball it was. I believe it was our pitcher that actually made the fielding play.